I am sorry that I didn't get to update sooner. School started again and taking three honors/advanced placement classes on a block schedule doesn't leave much free time. Still, I want to thank Aclemene for her review because the second I read it, multiple chapters and a pretty good story line that I hadn't thought of before formed in my head. So thank you so much.
Now I just need to know, I have been trying to write in Elyse's accent, but I don't know if you guys can understand what she is saying so I'm considering dropping that. I like having the accent but I think that it gets to be too much sometime and considering that fact that I am not even remotely Irish, I don't want to butcher her words. I would love to hear your opinion about that.
I still don't own Harry Potter. Big shocker.
The next morning, Ursula and Elyse both stumbled down the girl's stairs. The girls in the dorm had stayed up late the last night talking. Now, the pair of girls wished that they would have gone to bed earlier. Ursula had just collapsed into an armchair when there was a loud bang from the upstairs. Ursula almost fell off her chair when she jumped in shock.
Elyse squeaked and fell over the back of the sofa, "What teh bloody 'ell was 'hat?" She exclaimed from her upside down position.
Just then Sirius and Ben came running down the stairs laughing loudly. A door was thrown open from somewhere up the boy's dorm and someone shouted, "SHUT UP! BLOODY FIRST YEARS!"
Another door was thrown open as it echoed loudly after hitting the stone wall, "WHO SHOVED A WAND UP YOUR ASS, LONGBOTTOM?"
"WHO ASKED YOU FABIEN?"
"IT'S GIDEON! I'VE BEEN IN THE SAME HOUSE WITH YOU FOR THE LAST SIX YEARS!"
"WELL, IN THAT CASE THEN, I AM DEEPLY SORRY, YOU ANNOYING TWAT!"
"I WAS JUST KIDDING! I AM FABIEN!"
There was an enraged, primal shout as one of the doors slammed back shut. Laughter wafted down from stairs and joined the laughter of the four first years.
"What did you guys do? It scared us half to death," Ursula questioned the boys.
The smirked and shared a look. Ursula groaned, knowing that look on her brother. Just then, an annoyed looking James Potter came stumbling down the stairs with the help of Peter. When James saw the two boys he glared at them.
"You two are bloody jerks, you know that right?"
"What did 'hey do?" Elyse asked.
The two boys dissolved into another fit of laughter. James was getting angrier and angrier, which only caused the boys to laugh louder.
"Those two gits made me hit my head when I woke up this morning!" James said, rubbing the back of his head.
"We couldn't wake James up this morning so those two decided to get right in his face until he woke up. They were this close to his face," Peter said holding up his thumb and first finger closely together, "when he opened his eyes. James was so scared he jumped back and hit his head on the headboard."
B y that point, the entire group minus James was laughing hysterically.
"Fine, be that way you bloody gits. One day you will regret messing with the superior James Charlus Potter!" He held his hand out like he was brandishing a sword but the effect was ruined when he over extended his arm and hit Sirius in the face.
The entire group was silent as James smiled smugly. Sirius just looked at him with dancing grey eyes, "You have 5…4…3…2…1. GET HIM!"
During the countdown, James's eyes had widened and he started running out of the common room. Ben and Sirius were leading the charge with Peter and Elyse closely behind.
"SEE YOU IN THE GREAT HALL!" Ursula shouted after them, deciding to wait for the last member of their group. She made herself comfy on the sofa and waited as the rest of the student body went to the Great Hall. After getting some clear directions to the Great Hall and turning down an offer to walk with Lily and Alice, the person she was waiting for slowly walked down the stairwell.
"Merlin, Lupin, you take longer than a girl to get ready in the morning," Ursula joked.
Remus's eyes widened when he saw her, "Why are you here?"
She looked at him with an eyebrow raised, "Why wouldn't I be here? Someone had to wait for you and the others are currently busy chasing James. Why do you look so surprised?"
During her explanation his face had formed into a look of shock, like she had just grown a second head instead of explaining why she was waiting for him.
"I didn't think anyone would wait for me."
Ursula walked over and looped her arm through his and began walking towards the portrait entrance with him, "Well, to be perfectly honest Lupin, I like you. I can tell you're going to be a good friend. Unless you have this insanely dark secret that would make the rest of us fear for our lives, then maybe we should reconsider the friendship." She stopped and looked him deadly serious in the eyes, unnerving him with the intensity.
Remus looked like he had just swallowed his potions book whole. Then Ursula burst out laughing and continued dragging the boy to breakfast,
"I'm just joshing you Remus. All of us have some dark secret. It just may not seem as dark to some people."
They arrived at the Great Hall within a few minutes. Remus had yet to say a word to her after her last comment and she noticed that he looked pale. She was about to inquire about that when Sirius shouted from the table,
"Oi, you two, get over here!"
They walked over to the group of first years and as they sat down and got food, Ursula noticed that James was unharmed.
"Let him live, didn't you?" Ursula asked, pointing her fork in his direction, accidentally sending some omelets in his direction. Ben laughed when the food hit James right on the cheek. James didn't say anything and just glared at her.
"Eh, it would have caused too much of a mess." Sirius said with a shrug.
James glared at Ursula while the rest chuckled at him. He was about to snap something back when a red haired girl walked up behind Ben.
"Hey, Benny, sorry I didn't get to see you last night at the feast. Slughorn caught me hexing the Slytherins so he pulled me out of the feast. Congratulations on making Gryffindor." She clapped him on the shoulder.
"Thanks Anna. Guys this is my sister, Annabelle White. Anna, this is-"
"I know who they are. It's not every year we get three more red-heads, a Potter, and two Blacks. Hell, I don't think we've ever had a Black before." She looked at them slightly suspicious.
"Hey, we don't care about blood status," Sirius defended both of them.
Ursula glared at the older girl she used to idolize, "Just because our parents support Voldemort, doesn't mean that we do."
The suspicious slightly lifted from Annabelle's dark brown eyes, "Can't really blame me for making the assumption. You're family is one of the darkest families out there."
"You would think that because you're from one of the least judgmental families out there, you wouldn't judge us, but you do. But maybe you're just like them." Ursula shot back, angry that she was being judged by her own housemate because of her family.
Annabelle's eyes widened a second before they flashed with anger, "Are you comparing me to a Death Eater?" She spat.
"Maybe I am," Ursula said casually.
Annabelle looked about ready to hex her but Ben intervened, "We need to get to our first class. McGonagall gave us our schedules when we walked in. She gave me Remus's and Sirius has yours Ursula. Let's go."
He shoved a piece of paper at Remus before grabbing the upper arms of the Black Twins and dragging them out of the Great Hall with the rest of group following behind them.
"What was that?" Ben demanded harshly of her once they were far enough away from the Great Hall, his eyes flashing just as his sister's had been.
Ursula shrugged, "She was making assumptions because of my family. That isn't right. She was being stupid."
"That's my sister! You realize that you two are going to be judged because of your family and there is nothing you can do!"
"I was sorted into bloody Gryffindor! I thought that would be enough to prove that I wasn't like them." She shot back with a snarl.
James snorted, "Good luck with that."
"What does that mean?" Sirius asked him, defensively.
James just shrugged, "You come from a family that all other purebloods have been warned about at some point in their lives. Then all the half-bloods and muggleborns in Hogwarts have been dealing with the rest of your insane family for the last however many years."
"But they were all in Slytherin!" Ursula practically shouted. "We are nothing like them!"
"How do people know that? You got sorted last night and so far besides from talking to the rest of the Gryffindor first years, you have only insulted my sister, who I might add, carries some influence in this house because she is a seventh year," Ben pointed out.
That just got Ursula more riled up, "I don't care that's she's older than me. She had no right speak to me like that!"
"There's a way things are done at Hogwarts. First years don't go around insulting seventh year, Quidditch Captains." Ben said harshly.
"Oh, so let's let everyone walk over us because we are eleven! It's not fair and you know that Ben. You're smart enough to realize that that's wrong. Why are you even acting like this; I never said anything bad about you?"
"You insulted my sister," he said it as if that was the most obvious, clear-cut answer.
He turned and walked away with James and Peter. Sirius looked at her for a moment before he shrugged as if to say 'he's right you know' and he followed. Her eyes widened before she shouted,
"Fine you traitor!"
She huffed and turned to look at Remus and Elyse who had chosen to be silent throughout the whole argument.
"Are you going with them too?"
Both of them shook their heads.
The rest of the day it was very awkward. Ursula refused to talk to the four boys and they refused to acknowledge her, Elyse, or Remus. It was later that night and Elyse and Ursula were sitting in the dorm room.
"Am I crazy, or is my brother an idiot?" Ursula asked and she jumped onto her bed, almost falling off because of momentum.
The Irish girl laughed as she calmly sat down on her bed, "He's an idiot."
"I know!" Ursula exclaimed, "He's siding with Ben because you don't abandon family! Doesn't he remember that I am his sister? Plus, she was the one that insulted BOTH of us," Ursula's rant went on for three more minutes about how her brother was an idiot and Annabelle should get off her high horse and how Ben shouldn't let everything get to him like that.
Being the good friend that Elyse hoped to become, she listened to her and made the appropriate comments at the right time.
"Don't you think so?" Ursula asked, from her hanging position off the side of her bed.
Elyse paused a moment before she shook her head, "Not really. If anyone insulted Sirius, yeh would hex 'hem inteh oblivion."
"Whose side are you on?"
Elyse held up her hands, "No one's. Yeh just need teh apologize teh Annabelle."
"I refuse to apologize to someone that insulted me! Goodnight." Ursula drew the curtains around her bed and refused to speak to any of the girls in the dorm for the rest of the night.
Please review. The one review I got inspired the rest of their first and second year and actually changed some parts of the story for the better. The moral of the story is REVIEW!
I will still update sometime this weekend if you don't, but it would be highly appreciated.